Ken Marcus wrote; Tuesday, November 25, 2008 11:29 AM
User Ernie wrote;
>
> >I am still having problems with these brute force attacks,
> the problem
> >seems
> > to be that dovecot is spawing too many processes->PAM
> requests before the
> > intrusion detection progam has notices. Is there a way to
> hard code the
> > number of simultaneous running dovecot processes to give
> time for the
> > blocking scripts to respond. Something like 50 dovcot
> pop3-login processes
> > at once should be heaps.
> >
> >> On Sun, Sep 07, 2008 at 08:14:51PM +0200, Maurice de Laat wrote:
> >>
> >> > wget http://rfxnetworks.com/apf.php
> >>
> >> Make that wget http://www.r-fx.ca/downloads/apf-current.tar.gz
> >> Sorry for the confusion.
> >> --
> >> Maurice de Laat
> >>
>
> As far as I know, the standard BFD does not work with Dovecot.
>
We switched many servers to use the flat-password-file system, and looks
like it works!
Originally by NuOnce, can't find the URL...
We use the follwing;
http://fsn.raqware.com/flat-password-file-conversion
Gerald